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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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You can't improve on saying nothing.
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It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.
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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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